Holy shit. I didn’t even notice that was the old “similar handle” ploy. Someone did this to me early on. Anyone remember “curr68″? That extra ‘r’ fooled lots of people. I wonder if its the same idiot. I used to call him “mini-me” and treat him like a mentally-defective cast-off autonomous body part. I miss the dimwitted lil buffoon. He made me laugh…

Looks like ‘philliac’s got her own “mini-me”. Its actually quite a compliment. You aint anyone until you’ve got your own personal troll.

As short as my handle is someone got me too about two years ago. Word press had an exploit where you could post as another user if you knew their email address. One of my old posts was used and copied word for word. I had originally made a post on a retiring player, the new post was on another player retiring and they changed the player name to match and then went through adding spelling errors and random punctuation. I have a hard enough time with grammar that I require little help looking foolish. I never did find out who did it, I just ignored it and it stopped shortly after I made some changes in my profile.

It’s amazing BP, through his good numbers has always been a man who is vulnerable, and anytime there was something negative, he’d lash out. He was very bitter for many years when the Indians traded him to the Reds, primarily because he and Eric Wedge never saw eye to eye with each other, and now we see this. Dude needs to grow up, because the simple fact is not everyone is going to like you. I hope he apologizes to the beat writer, because he made a complete ass out of himself. No excuses there.

WHERE did I ever say I was not over it? Show me, please do, because honestly, I would rather have Jason Kipnis over that arrogant piece of crap anyday. Don’t get me wrong, BP excelled in Cincy, but the way he treated that beat writer, his own beat writer, and the way he treats any negativity made me lose any respect I might have had for him. But I am sure he isn’t losing any sleep, wait a second….he might because it’s a negative post concerning him.

Well what the rest of the media seems to forget to mention is the fact that this happens more often than everyone knows. Even C. Trent stated this isn’t the first time and it won’t be the last. Hell, one reporter was saying that Griffey Jr. and Dunn would throw water bottles in his vacinity while he’s in the club house or they’d put a ball in a towel and swing it near him because they didn’t like him. Yet we’re making Phillips out to be the only player to ever tell off a member of the media. Let’s keep it in perspective. He isn’t the only one and sure won’t be the last one to do it. But of course the media will continue to defend their guy and bash Phillips. You’d think a prerequisite for media would be to stay thick skinned because you’re dealing with rich athletes who are, at times, under extreme pressure from us fans to win. And things build up if you’re not winning. The Reds had just come off of two of the biggest losses of the season. Of course tensions are high. I’m by no means defending Phillips. His choice of words was pretty upsetting to me considering I’m a heavy guy. But to make him out to be the only athlete to have ever done this is absurd. Just think, your favorite player has probably, at some point, gone off on a reporter and said some less than desireable things. Yeah, it probably has happened. Deal with it.

Didn’t say that either. I simply stated that everyone is harping on Phillips and making him out to be the only one who does it or has done it. Of course Cardinal fans are going to come in here and bash him because he called their team out and told them like it was. But I bet I can name 2 Cardinals players who have done the very same thing to reporters because they got pissed. Chris Carpenter and Molina. Hell Carpenter got all over a teammate because of a glove situation in a game. Dude is a 1st class douche bag. And don’t even get me started on the wanna be cholo Molina. Baseball would be much better off without that scum. Spitting on umps and lunging at them to attack them? Really? And Cardinals fans will continue to preach how “classy” they are. Just the opposite.

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged - Aug 29, 2013 at 6:04 PM

I simply stated that everyone is harping on Phillips and making him out to be the only one who does it or has done it.

It could also be because Phillips was wrong in his analysis, and the reporter was right. So not only is BP an ass, he’s an ass who’s wrong.

stlouis1baseball - Aug 29, 2013 at 5:52 PM

“Spitting on umps and lunging at them to attack them?”

Hello hyperbole. Meet the sucker. Wow…you still have it bad huh?
Next time I am in the Queen City I will buy you a beer.

One needn’t be a fan of a rival team to disapprove of Phillips’ behavior. I live here in Cincinnati and I am able to look past which team he plays for enough to disapprove of his inability to express his disagreement with a reporter without calling the man a M-F’r multiple times.

cincinata - Aug 29, 2013 at 7:22 PM

Bengal Boy:

Slow down You are not old enough to be a Reds fan at my level. So, slow down with the insults. The reason Phillips is wrong is that he is a hot head, and even though I appreciate his athletic ability, he is a poor sport and a big HOTDOG. That was a problem Joe Morgan spoke to him about after leaving Cleveland. Joe told him this was going to be his last chance to “make it” in the biggs.That is the reason guys like Jr. and Dunn had a little fun with him. For you to say that Molina (the best catcher in the game and possibly since my fav Bench), is no good is stupid. He is certainly headed for the HOF, and the brush up with Brandon had no impact on it. You ruin your cred with everybody with that talk. Who started the problems with the Molina Phillips feud is debatable and there is fault on both sides. This latest problem with the press just shows how juvenile and foolish this guy is and he had better do something to correct it. He is already losing my support for my fav Red (fast). So, calm down and try to speak with some amount of intelligence.

tfbuckfutter - Aug 29, 2013 at 4:48 PM

Rob Darling is a good person to comment on this because, interestingly, they have the same career on-base percentage.